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Does Mozilla's Plugin Checker not read Safari plugins correctly? My Plugins are all up to date and it still says "update."

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Shockwave Flash Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181 — from file “Flash Player.plugin”.

Shockwave for Director Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.0 — from file “DirectorShockwave.plugin”.

I'm wondering if it is how Safari does not list the entire version in it's plugin page, such as 11.6.0 instead of 11.6.0.r.626.

Also I have Looked in the plugins file for Safari and turned on the extension to show invisible extensions and it shows this:

DirectorShockwave.plugin 11.6.0r626 Flash Player.plugin 10.3 r181.34

I have also uninstalled and reinstalled just to see if that was the problem.

Shockwave Flash Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181 — from file “Flash Player.plugin”. Shockwave for Director Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.0 — from file “DirectorShockwave.plugin”. I'm wondering if it is how Safari does not list the entire version in it's plugin page, such as 11.6.0 instead of 11.6.0.r.626. Also I have Looked in the plugins file for Safari and turned on the extension to show invisible extensions and it shows this: DirectorShockwave.plugin 11.6.0r626 Flash Player.plugin 10.3 r181.34 I have also uninstalled and reinstalled just to see if that was the problem.

Modified by saneman

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When you run the plugin check, you should get a column with the full version number (here's Flash, for example, in the attached screen shot).

As for finding Safari plugins, I don't know how it works on MacOS; on Windows, Firefox will scan certain locations outside of its folders to pick up plugins that are not Firefox-specific. The plugin checker then will use the information that Firefox has gathered.

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

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I get that screen.

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I don't think it's scanning the files correctly or it's just incompatible with Safari. It messes this up on Opera too. Camino has trouble with this too.

Modified by saneman

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Now only ShockwaveDirector is appearing to be out of date so I'm going with it's a compatibility issue. I have Parallels, so I have Win 7 Pro and Linux Mint 11, they work.

Modified by saneman